Realistic cost estimate: Single-family house with unfavorable development location

That is indeed considerably larger than what you had planned here. But it could fit on the property. The hallway with almost 20 m2 and the huge open space on the upper floor? If the budget allows, then everything is fine.

This one is also much larger. However, it made slightly better use of the lower WF. Is the distance of 4.6m to the west mandatory?

Something similar to our hand sketch from page 23 was nice, for example, but then you ended up with children's rooms under 10sqm according to WoFl - we don't want that.

I had replied to your hand sketch on page 23
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in #167 but refrained from posting the illustration I made of your hand sketch within the given external dimensions (I recall you wanted to use the dimensions specified by the general contractor).
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So here again are the not yet deleted images of your hand sketch in relation to the external dimensions from me:
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For me, anything but feasible, generous or anything. Too many rooms, pantry that blocks any view, plus the partition wall that only restricts the open space. And yes, the room sizes above are only floor areas...
I remind:

Space requirement on the ground floor, upper floor: about 60-70

Your house examples are bigger.
Since you are googling four-gable houses, the dependency of the spatial zones on the bay windows should have also caught your attention.
You copied the 151 from the Planerei? It is considerably wider than what you want. Whether it fits on your plot or your budget, I cannot track anymore. Personally, I find little to like in that design if you want it open.

I am not surprised that the floor plans look much smaller in the drafts. Let's take the first house... 160 sqm but only 45 for the open living area. There absolutely must be an office on the ground floor... staircase inconveniently in the middle, resulting in 20 sqm of hallway on the ground floor and just as much space upstairs for hallway and open space. Children's rooms and bathroom have awkward corners in the captain's gable and are therefore impractical to furnish. The L-shaped kitchen has little space, the island with bar clutters the room quite a bit.

There is a reason why the over-optimized cookie-cutter houses are the way they are...

The exterior dimensions are not specified, the floor plans from the general contractor were just examples. If they are set, it must either be a misunderstanding or you are confusing us. The hand sketch doesn’t fit in there either. It will be an individual plan and more important than the exterior dimensions is that we get reasonably nice room sizes and it doesn’t become much bigger than 160 sqm.


The distance in the west results from a new property boundary after subdivision. We have about 22-23m space from west to east and have to keep the usual 3m on both sides. The two are at least roughly comparable with our plan with about 160 sqm. It is very hard to find ideas because most people, for obvious reasons, do not build with two gables. The huge hallway is really quite something and we have since given up on the air space, rather prefer a tiny storage room or something like that. I’m going crazy trying to compare the sizes because the specifications are sometimes according to the living space ordinance and sometimes not :/ Many thanks for the placement sketches! What we like about both is that bigger rooms are created upstairs.


Many thanks for your work, it puts it into perspective well again. Especially the floor areas upstairs are of course annoying. The pantry should be integrated into the concrete staircase, that wasn’t clearly visible in the hand sketch. All plans we look at are always under the premise that partition walls with sliding doors in the open space will not be adopted by us. Is there actually another term besides Viergiebelhaus for this type of house or are there not so many idiots who want it like that?


Yes, the office on the ground floor is hated here, but unfortunately it has to be. Just ran into an acquaintance who is so happy to have a spare room on the ground floor with her broken hip. Mind you, not even over 70. Or recently we had Norovirus in the family, but not both at the same time. How nice it is then to be able to retreat to another floor with a bed and shower.


Yes, that’s how it is! We would also take a ready-made one immediately, but unfortunately there are so few with two gables :/ Do you still have a smart source for that?